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#beetles

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Evan Sky arts
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While I’m making stock of all my products, I’m also slowly but surely working on my little bug magnets! I’m very happy with the designs, I think they work really well even though I still have a few issues to fix in the cutting files.
I have 3 beetles and 2 moths designs!

My hand holding two unfinished, unassembled felt insects over a view of sunlit gardens. There’s is a purple moth and a green jewel beetle.
Two other insects overlooking a rooftop and gardens. One is a yellowish moth and one is a blue beetle with orange highlights between it’s wings.
#handmade#wip#smallbusinesssaturday
rsp
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You and your fellow springtails are peacefully feeding on organic debris next to a stream when suddenly a dark shape rapidly approaches from beneath a leaf. It's a predatory, semi-aquatic rove beetle of the genus Stenus whose appearance causes the springtails to release their furculas, leaping in random directions to escape. The defeated rove beetle raises its abdomen in frustration and resumes the hunt.
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#MacroMonday#Macrophotography#Nature
Ele Willoughby, PhD
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This is a whimsical mini print of a couple of Snowflake Beetles a widely unknown, quite possibly, completely #imaginary creature. These miniscule #insects are camouflaged to match their environment, fresh fallen snow. Each of their hexagonal shields (the elytra) are disguished as snowflakes. Through an extraordinary instance of biomimicry, each pattern is as unique; it is believed that no 2 Snowflake #Beetles are the same.*⁠
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#linocut #printmaking #snowflake

A square linocut print in pale blue ink on white washi paper showing 2 imaginary snowflake beetles (carved away in white against the blue background) with their hexagonal elytras looking like snowflakes, with scattered snowflakes.
Alex Wild
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One perk of being curator of a natural history collection is that our volunteers and staff bring me little treasures. Here's an Oiceoptoma carrion beetle that John Carroll found on a deer carcass in south Austin. Life- and death- goes on.

macro photograph from near top view of a large, flattened black beetle walking on a gray stone substrate. The beetle is covered in gross brownish crud.
#insects#Silphidae#Beetles
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺
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Leaf beetles' evolutionary success linked to gene transfer and symbiosis phys.org/news/2025-01-leaf-bee

"Almost all #LeafBeetles have incorporated foreign genetic material into their genome, which is responsible for the production of #enzymes necessary to digest plant cell wall components... half of the species of leaf #beetles live in close association with symbiotic #bacteria. These #symbionts provide the beetles with important digestive enzymes, vitamins, and amino acids."

photo of a dark iridescent beetle on black background
rsp
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First weevil for 2025. Meet the Barely Hairy Baridine (Eisonyx crassipes), playing "possum". It was feeding on a plant when I disturbed it and, as many weevils will do, it dropped to the ground and played dead.

I think someone may have recently invented the name Barely Hairy Baridine for BugGuide as I don't see it in widespread use. This weevil is a member of the subfamily Baridinae, of which there may be 30,000 species globally.

#WeevilWednesday
#Beetles #NaturalHistory

Black weevil, with legs curled up against body, laying on a sandy substrate. The beetle has tiny punctures in rows on the elytra and has almost no hairs.
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